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Chapter 1896 "Kung Fu King"

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Journey to the West, I plan to adapt this Kung Fu magic movie through Journey to the West.Chen Hao said.

Journey to the West, this is indeed a very good subject.Florence Fok agreed: In our Hong Kong movies, there is the series "A Chinese Odyssey" adapted by Stephen Chow!

When everyone heard that Chen Hao was going to bring the story of Journey to the West to the big screen, everyone else couldn't help but feel expectant!

A commercial blockbuster with a investment of 500 million Hong Kong dollars is adapted from Journey to the West. No matter how the movie is in the foreign box office market, the box office in China will definitely not be low!

As the heroine of the movie, or playing a supporting actress in it, I dare not say that she can become famous internationally, but domestic popularity will definitely rise sharply!

For a newcomer like Liu Shishi, starring in such a movie is undoubtedly a pie falling from the sky. Liu Shishi glanced at Cai Yinong and didn’t know if Sister Nong could help her win a role!

Looking at Yang Mi who was confident and ostentatious by Chen Hao's side, Liu Shishi felt a little uncomfortable, as if the heroine of the movie was the one she was!

The script has not been written yet, and it is even more unknown who the heroine is in. What's the point of being proud of!

The four women Bai Bing, Zhang Junning, Zhang Cute and Gui Lunmei also began to feel active. After all, they are a big production with a investment of 500 million Hong Kong dollars. Who doesn’t want to participate in Ah in such a commercial blockbuster, even if they play a small role in it!

What Chen Hao wants to adapt is naturally not a magical love story like "A Chinese Odyssey"!Of course, the adaptation of "A Chinese Odyssey" is very classic and exciting, and there is no doubt about it!

However, it is obviously a bit difficult to adapt it according to the method of "A Chinese Odyssey" and be released worldwide!

And Chen Hao wanted to learn from and adapt it is also another movie "Kung Fu King" in another time and space!

There is an unwritten rule in the film industry, that is, superstars with equal strength generally do not cooperate, which is why the king does not see the king.Hong Kong films were the most brilliant time. They had never worked together on each other on Monday. Later, Hong Kong films declined to save Hong Kong films Stephen Chow and Jackie Chan made guest appearances, but they still couldn't reverse the decline of Hong Kong films.Jackie Chan has been wanting to work with Chow Yun-fat for many years, but he has not fulfilled this wish yet. He has worked together with Jet Li in filming "King Fu King".

The two J teamed up to make movies. The movie always hopes to see them. Both of them are the most accomplished superstars in the Chinese film industry, and they are both martial arts actors. Audiences around the world want to watch them fight.In the 1990s, both of them were very busy and couldn't get a schedule, and they were not from the same company, so they failed to cooperate.The main early obstacle is Jiahe.

Of course, the failure to cooperate in the early years was because the market was not big enough to make a profit at that time, and the two of them had high pay and the film dealers could not afford to hire them.When Jackie Chan likes to show off, he will definitely not be happy if you find Jet Li who is on par with him.The first-time collaboration between the two Js in 2008 was largely because Jackie Chan wanted to use Jet Li's popularity to get out of the trough of his career.Many fans may be unhappy to see this, but after 2000, Jackie Chan's Chinese-language film failed and "80 Days in the World" returned home from Hollywood. Jackie Chan's condition is indeed very sluggish.

"Kung Fu King" is a co-production film, with mainland film companies collaborating with Hollywood. Although Jet Li and Jackie Chan are famous for starring, the male lead is actually a foreigner.Liu Yifei, who was only 21 years old at the time, was also one of the starring actors. Her resume is really beyond the reach of ordinary female artists.How many celebrities dream of working with two big names? What's more, they still play the leading role. Liu Yifei's film resources at that time were still very impressive.However, she also played a good hand and had a bad start in the film industry. In her early years, she started so high, but she became worse and worse later and did not make any progress.

"Kung Fu King" is directed by Robert Mingkov and starring Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Liu Yifei, Li Bingbing, Michael Angelo, Zou Zhaolong and others.The film tells the story of the American teenager Jason traveling back to ancient China, where he met the kung fu master Lu Yan, Jin Yànzi and Mo Seng. The four of them experienced many difficulties and finally defeated evil forces such as the God of War in Yujiang and completed the mission of saving the Monkey King.

Kung Fu King is a highly anticipated movie, but the effect of the movie is average, and foreign directors do not understand China's "Journey to the West".The whole video is just a double J fight scene, but Jet Li and Jackie Chan have had a fight for too short, and the audience has not enjoyed it.Liu Yifei's performance in terms of actors is pretty good, her temperament is cold and beautiful, and the white-haired witch played by Li Bingbing has also stole the show a lot.However, the plot is too bad and everything is useless, which also led to the film's box office loss in the mainland.

Among the top ten sales in 2008, "Kung Fu King" only received 17.1 billion yuan in box office, ranking sixth. This result can only be said to be average, neither good nor bad, but it is also a fact that it is lower than expected.In contrast, the first four films received more than 200 million yuan, and Feng Xiaogang's "If You Are the One" even scored 32.5 billion yuan, surpassing John Woo's three-country blockbuster "Red Cliff" 3.2 billion yuan.Stephen Chow's transformational movie "Yangtze River 7" also sold 20.3 billion yuan, but Jackie Chan and Jet Li lost to Stephen Chow in the box office!

"Yangtze River VII" had a bad reputation back then. Its box office sales played a key role in the release of the Spring Festival period. "Kung Fu King" was released on April 24, and it suffered a slight loss in terms of schedule.In 2008, Jackie Chan and Jet Li cooperated for the first time, but the box office only received 1.7 billion and lost to Stephen Chow.This does not mean that Stephen Chow's appeal is stronger than Double J. It is also very important to sell the quality of the films at the box office or not. The influence of celebrities is only one factor, not to mention that it also has overseas box office.

However, "Kung Fu King" has been disappointed in North America, with a box office of only $52.07 million, and other overseas markets are also not as good as the global box office, with a global box office of only $12.7 billion (about 8.4 billion yuan), which failed to achieve the profit target. Jackie Chan did his best, and the two major kung fu superstars could not bear the box office even if they joined forces.

Jet Li's appeal back then was one of the best. He made a lot of profit in filming Western films, and he also made a big splash in Chinese films. In summary, it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the number one person in the film industry.But it was a pity that after 2008, he faded out of the film industry and focused on doing charity. He missed the best period when the mainland market boomed and the box office was won.Since 2012, the mainland has entered the era of box office boom, and it is not impossible for a movie to sell for billions of dollars.

To be honest, the failure of "Kung Fu King" is all due to Jet Li and Jackie Chan, but "Kung Fu King" finally had a box office of only 17.1 billion yuan in the mainland, which fully demonstrates a problem. The box office appeal of celebrities is not absolute, even superstars like Jet Li and Jackie Chan!